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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…to it endlessly as a kid. I was instantly interested in the idea, and went away and researched it – looking into what versions had been made, and if there… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…I wouldn’t put the book in my bag at all…I’d just draw all day, sketchbook in my hand. Slowly it turned into this thing where other friends came and we… |
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A Christmas Carol
…Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to differentiate it from the multiple other screen versions (including two of Disney’s own). If anything, it’s the immortal power of the plot and Zemeckis’ adaptation… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…had to make sure I was disciplined and had my goals in mind. But I also had to make sure I enjoyed my life once I got home, for the… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…I got to my boss, Andy Engman, about getting into Layout. What the Layout man does is: he takes the storyboard and breaks it down into individual scenes. And then… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…reintroduce them. Of course, as much as this familiarity helps in some ways, it puts pressure on you to keep it interesting and unexpected. Christmas is hands down my favorite… |
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Heidi’s Song
…see if the movie was as good as I remembered it, Heidi is able to sing again thanks to WB’s issue of the film on DVD – well it’s about… |
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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…The process of presenting it, however, it really one of clearing it with our Legal department. So long as the film’s conceit isn’t encroaching on something that is in development,… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…I was stunned when I learned that I would be its recipient. If I needed more motivation to carry on researching and preserving Disney history in the future this would… |
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Elemental surpasses Lightyear, The Good Dinosaur
…that this is the attempted resurrection of an iconic IP is why this isn’t being viewed as a success. In three weekends, Destiny has made $145 million, which is less… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…in She-Ra. I’m not saying that we should take She-Ra too seriously, but stepping back I found much more to the show than I initially thought I would find. While… |
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Michael Eisner's open letter to employees
…billion in 2003. I hope these results will add to your enthusiasm and renew your energy for the coming year because, as Walt put it, “if any of you start… |
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The Art Of WALL•E: you're booked!
Despite my good intentions, I’m not able to bring you my promised take on the 45th Anniversary Sword In The Stone DVD today, because my computer has decided to lock… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…current hometown of Montreal. It was actually pretty weird to see these people walking around a hotel I have spent countless hours in. Anyways, it’s an interesting documentary featuring interviews… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…all, I think its fairly small and intimate story, albeit told on an epic scale, is what grabbed me. It has, in short, a lot of heart, but it otherwise… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #40: Robin Hood – Cheap Quotable Thrills
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers gang is back in action in this extra long episode, where they talk about one of their all-around favorite Disney animated classics: Robin… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #45: Kevin Schreck Interview
…animation? “A very special place.” • Life lessons learned. • “The Supper Secret Project!” -Will show soldiers in a field. • How Kevin got an internship at DreamWorks. “Unpaid” plug…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #60: The Lion King – It’s SFX!
…How can you go wrong with Hans Zimmer, Elton John, and Tim Rice? • How does “The Baboon Priesthood” actually work? • Scar vs. Mufasa. Why Scar is the prototype… |
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2020 Primetime Emmy nominations revealed
…• Maya Rudolph in Big Mouth • Leslie Odom Jr. in Central Park • Wanda Sykes in Crank Yankers • Taika Wahtiti in The Mandalorian • Nancy Cartwright in The… |
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Warning From Space
…movies will find it a must-see, while fans of American ‘50s sci-fi will also find it engaging, if a bit derivative. Arrow’s disc does what it can with the faded… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…Patrick having to leave their home in Bikini Bottom to search for him was done previously in a popular episode of the series in 2005 titled Have You Seen This… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…I wrote it away from picture, and because the directors loved it, I used it as my secret weapon, my Leitmotiv. For any entity that appears in this strange world,… |
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Twenty Years of AV
…when it comes to readership! But being in the same breath as them when it comes to longevity is amazing to me. As I like to say every anniversary, we… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…Blu-ray’s bonus features. In fact, Together In The Weather was part of the original Puppetoon Movie proper, but now it is fully restored and has its titles/credits. All of the… |
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The Marvels has lowest MCU opening ever
…in Endgame? It seems safe to say that isn’t going to happen. But again, the real problem here is the budget, which somehow got out of hand for The Marvels… |
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Oscar Night 2024
The 96th Annual Academy Awards are tonight and we’ll be discussing it live with readers like you in our chat room. Join us as we talk the people, the story-lines,… |
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Transformers One
…This is not to say that it isn’t also a ton of fun, as it absolutely still is. In any case, some still may be taken aback by the level… |
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Oscar Night 2025
…we’ll be covering it as part of our annual Oscar event, now in its 21st year! Join us at 6:30pm EST for a live chat during the Oscar telecast in… |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle
…the Studio Ghibli films. Beginning as a manga series by Koyoharu Gotouge in February 2016 and then adapted into an anime series by Ufotable premiering in April 2019, it would… |
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Knights of Guinevere
…murky everything looked and moved. With the majority of the show taking place on the surface, it would make clear how destitute and impoverished it was. Seeing Park Planet only… |
